Nanaimo Museum

A birdseye view of the City of Nanaimo. Originally designed by an engineer in England who hadn't even visited the area.

From the Nanaimo Museum's Photo Collection-Four young people preparing for a theatre performance

Press Releases

02/12/13 Heritage Week - Feb 2013
01/09/13 Lunar New Year Celebration - Feb 2013
01/09/13 Feature Exhibit: In Tents - How we Camped - Jan 2013
12/02/12 December at the Museum - Dec 2012
11/22/12 Sports Hall of Fame Special Award Announcement - Nov 2012
09/04/12 Sports Hall of Fame Induction Cermeony - Sep 2012
08/23/12 Feature Exhibit: Spirit of Life Fibre-Art Exhibition - Sep 2012
07/17/12 Live Video Chat with Astronaut Jeremy Hansen - Aug 2012
06/13/12 Noel Brown Hallway Exhibit - June 2012
06/01/12 To the Moon: Snoopy Soars with NASA
05/01/12 Bastion Opening - May 2012
04/20/12 1887 Mine Explosion Commemoration
02/14/12 Woman of the Year Display - March 2012
02/14/12 Literary Luminaries Event - Feb 25
02/14/12 Sports Hall of Fame - Call for Nominations
01/31/12 Our Feathered Friends - Public Programs
01/17/12 Our Feathered Friends - New Feature Exhibit
01/11/12 Lunar New Year Celebration
11/23/11 Old Fashioned Family Christmas
11/15/11 Book Launch: Kim Clark and Madeline Sonik
10/27/11 Remembrance Day Exhibit
11/01/11 Women's Fashions of La Belle Epoque [1890 - 1914]
10/11/11 Wonders of the Universe
08/15/11 Feature Exhibit: Women's Fashions of La Belle Epoque
08/15/11 Fall Public Programs
08/15/11 Lynne Bowen Book Launch
05/07/11 Bastion Opening
05/07/11 Feature Exhibit: Two Views
05/03/11 Heritage Commission Award for Bastion Restoration
04/21/11 Seeds & Salt Theatre Company: Bedtime Stories
04/02/11 Pamela Mar: BC Community Achievement Awards
03/20/11 Feature Exhibit: Discover South Wellington
03/01/11 Spring Break Programs
02/18/11 Sports Hall of Fame CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2011
02/03/11 The Jim Pattison Foundation donates $10,000
01/26/11 Lunar New Year at the Nanaimo Museum
12/08/10 Yesteryear Family Christmas at the Museum
12/04/10 Bastion Renovation unveiled
11/04/10  Honoured with the Museums in Motion award
11/04/10 Museums Remember...
09/27/10 Discovering Chinatown is the newest Feature Exhibit
09/23/10 Award Winning Canadian Humourist Arthur Black at the museum
09/13/10 Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
09/08/10 Volunteers Needed for the Nanaimo Museum
08/17/10 Chowder Cancellation and thank yous
08/13/10 Roof taken off Nanaimo's historic Bastion
07/23/10 Nanaimo Museum's Chowder Fest Returns
07/15/10 2010 Sports Hall of Fame Inductees Announced
07/14/10 Nanaimo Museum Opens the Coal Mine Experience
05/30/10  Acres of Dreams: Settling the Canadian Praries settles in Nanaimo
05/20/10 Passion for the Bastion a Cannon Art Affair
05/06/10 The Forgotten Genocide presented at the Nanaimo Museum
04/22/10 Sidney Sharmin donates $50,000 to Bastion
04/21/10 Cannon Art Affair during Empire Days
04/19/10 Bastion Block Party to help raise funds
04/15/10 Harbour City Photo Club presents two workshops
03/30/10 Hudson's Bay Company donates $80,000 to Nanaimo Bastion
03/18/10 Celebrating 25th Anniversary of Rick Hansen's Tour
03/10/10 Nanaimo Astronomy offers The Night Sky at the museum.
03/01/10 Nanaimo Bastion Remediation
03/01/10 Spring Break Workshops at the Nanaimo Museum
02/15/10 Literary Luminaries at the Nanaimo Museum
02/12/10 City of Nanaimo's Torch finds permanent home
01/21/10 Sports Hall of Fame CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
01/20/10 Lunar New Year at the Nanaimo Museum
01/07/10 Retro-active: A Blend of Tools and Art ~ Newest Feature
12/07/09 Minister of Canadian Heritage visits the Nanaimo Museum
11/09/09 The Closet Collector Feature Exhibit
10/24/09 Nanaimo Museum hosts Author Richard Mackie
10/07/09 Photo Safari Feature Journey to Belize at the museum
10/01/09 Rust in Peace - Photography Exhibit
09/22/09 Nanaimo Museum hosts a Textil Conservation Workshop
07/21/09 Rocket Richard: The Legend The Legacy arrives in Nanaimo
07/16/09 Sports Hall of Fame Announces 2009 Inductees
06/15/09 Nanaimo Museum welcomes the Theatre In Museums project
05/15/09 Bastion Summer starts with a Bang!
05/10/09 Two Feature Exhibits in One Gallery
05/05/09 Down the Aisle and Finding Malaspina's Gallery
04/22/09 Volunteers Recognized for the work at the Nanaimo Museum
04/20/09 Voices of the Snunéymuxw Website launched in Schools
01/20/09 Local Cultural Societies Team up to Celebrate Lunar New Year
01/20/09 Call for Nominations to the Sports Hall of Fame
01/19/09 Nanaimo Museum to Feature National Exhibit
09/03/08 The Nanaimo Museum - A New Era Begins!
08/20/08 Ed Yewchin becomes the Major Sponsor of the Coal Mine
06/25/08 Sports Hall of Fame Inagural Inductees
05/22/08  Rotary Clubs join together as New Major Sponsor
01/29/08 Nanaimo Community Foundation Sponsors New Museum
01/25/08 Seniors Magazine Publishes Article from the Nanaimo Museum
01/21/08 Sports Hall of Fame Gets a Home in the New Nanaimo Museum
2007
11/01/07 As Far As Fundraising Goes, It Just Keeps Getting Better
2006
12/12/06 Gallery 223 Presents Nanaimo: A Photographic History
10/14/06 Jan Peterson launches Harbour City: Nanaimo in Transition
2005

Nanaimo Museum featured on CHEK TV's Island 30 in February 2009. (courtesy of Destination Nanaimo)

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